You still smoke .. Do you know where the money you pay for cigarettes?

This month, the rise in cigarette prices comes into force in France, before a further increase scheduled for the end of 2020, and then the price of the best cigarette pack at ten euros. Do you know where this money goes by the smoke in the air warms the planet?

From this question launched the site of 20 Minot French, to shed light on the money spent on cigarettes and taxes that are collected from them, pointing out that the first goal behind them is to encourage the cessation of smoking.

Few for the plant and much for the state
The website said that the price of tobacco has been rising slowly and steadily, bringing the pack of the best brands to 9.30 euros this month, pointing out that the factory of this amount - according to the customs and indirect taxes - 69 cents, and the seller who buys it from 1.55 euros, and the state treasury 92 cents, while the remaining 6.14 euros are for social security.

For the state and social security, tobacco revenues are the biggest prize, with taxes on tobacco products increasing by 1.7 billion euros between 2017 and 2020, according to forecasts prepared by the Social Security Accounts Committee published in September, rising from 11.887 billion euros to 13 billion. And 58 million euros, and therefore social security earns 16 billion euros if added to the value-added tax rate of 16.64%.

Did the state increase the price of tobacco just to fill its coffers? He stressed that this is not the case, but that the State follows the recommendations of the World Health Organization, which believes that the most effective way to stop the spread of tobacco consumption will be to reduce demand directly, and the most powerful and cost-effective option for all governments is simply to raise tobacco prices by imposing Consumption taxes.

In 2004, France ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the third European country where tobacco is the most expensive, according to the website.

The result is that the price of a packet of cigarettes has nearly tripled since the early 2000s, which should help quit smokers and prevent others from starting at a time when tobacco is the leading cause of death by killing about 75,000 people. France every year.

Tobacco control taxes
The country has set up a national tobacco control program, and has set up a national fund to combat tobacco-related deaths, and is paying a small fraction of the VAT collected on tobacco sales, the website said.

In 2018, the country allocated 100 million euros to the fund to finance measures to prevent smoking, protect young people from entering the world, and help smokers stop smoking and support applied research.

What does social security do for 6.14 euros for every pack of cigarettes sold in France, the website said, noting that these huge revenues earned by the Social Security Fund hardly represent anything that this fund spends on the health damage caused by smoking.

Millions of addicts in France account for the largest health expenditure in the country, spending about 25 billion euros each year on the health damage, much more than the 16 billion that comes from the expected revenue from cigarette sales.